Update: Mercury has orbited around the hynes.
The Mercury photoshoot/gathering location is no longer on the first floor of the Hynes by the Dalton street entrance. Mercury and all photoshoots scheduled at that location will be up on the 3rd floor outside of Ballroom C.

This is the Official Master Thread for Anime Boston 2018 Cosplay Photoshoots and Gatherings. Please follow the rules in this thread in order to schedule a public cosplay photoshoot/gathering at one of Anime Boston’s Cosplay Photoshoot locations for 2018.

The following locations are available and their current schedules can be found by clicking the location’s link below:To view the Photoshoot/Gathering Schedule click on the location name below. This will send you to the live Google Doc for now. View the different locations by clicking on the location name in the tabs at the bottom.

Group organizers can post to this thread to add their photoshoot to the schedule.

For this year, locations and times will be first-come-first-served. So please fill out the information properly, so your group can be confirmed faster.

There will be one group per location per timeslot, unless the group agrees to share ahead of time.

Groups can sign up for 1 half-hour, 1 hour, or 1 hour-and-a-half timeslots, depending on expected size. Most photoshoots only take an hour, less people take less time, while we have seen large enough groups in the past that have needed 1.5 hours. (Please plan your shoots accordingly, so you can let the next group start on time.)

As we've suggested in the past, continue to organize with your specific groups within your own individual threads as to when and where your photo shoots will be. Once you are sure, please post the series/group name, location for the gathering/photoshoot, and day and time of the gathering. If this information is not included in your post, then it cannot be entered into the schedule. Post here in the following format:

Series/Manga/Movie/Group Name
Location of Shoot
Day and Time of Shoot
Link to thread or event page (if applicable)

The schedules will be updated until Thursday, March 29th, when staff will be on premise at Anime Boston. Sign-ups will be accepted through Wednesday, March 28th until midnight. The Photoshoot/Gathering schedule will be available here on the forums, printed at each location during the convention, and in the Anime Boston Guide Book app.

Reminder: Anime Boston staff does not organize the actual gatherings. We are just relaying information from you and placing it onto the schedule.

If you have scheduled a Public Cosplay Photoshoot/Gathering in this thread, and have not heard back from me, then your Series/Title should be on the Schedule now.
If you do not see your series, then we are either currently in discussion, or you can check your Private Messages for my response.

The Schedule has been updated again.
As a gentle reminder of Anime Boston's Sound Policy, please don't plan to play any loud music at the photoshoots as it can be considered disruptive in the halls. We want gatherings to be fun, and no one likes getting talked to by security while you're trying to take pictures.

Location of Shoot:If the weather's nice: We'll be meeting outside of the con next to the church/were the Anime Boston sign is normally hung and walk to the circle area across from the cheesecake factory.

Series/Manga/Movie/Group Name: Ace Attorney: Turnabout Boston 5th AnniversaryLocation of Shoot: Mercury / the front end of the Boylson hallwayDay and Time of Shoot: Looks like they've decided on Friday, but don't have a time set yet. In the past it's been at around 8pm.Link to thread or event page (if applicable):https://www.facebook.com/groups/1399057837003433/

(note that I'm not the event organizer, I'm just copying over the info before the slots all get filled)

is there any way we could change the location of this meet up to uranus instead of mars and change the time from 5-6pm to 5-6:30pm? We don't want to get in trouble playing music in the Hynes center! sorry for the trouble! ♥

Photoshoots have been updated, or private messages sent.
I have received multiple words that the up-to-date schedule was hard to find. Schedules for the individual rooms can be found by clicking the name of each location in the first post on this thread.